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Historical background of forceful evictions of villagers of Gota of Sipolilo
The promulgation of land settlement Act of 1957 by Sir Godfrey Huggins’s government in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) witnessed the forceful evictions of Villagers from their ancestral land of Gota ar...Published: 14 Jul 2024 at 17:26hrs | 333 | by Givestar Kamuzonde
Johanne Marange church gathers amid cholera fears
Thousands of Johanne Marange Apostolic Church members have gathered at the Mafararikwa Shrine in Marange, Manicaland province, for their annual Passover, despite concerns over the country's cholera ou...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:58hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'Godfather' dragged to court
Former Chiredzi Town Council Chairperson and Zanu-PF Chiredzi ‘Godfather' Francis Moyo was recently arraigned before the courts by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) together with his al...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU, US sanctions hit Zimbabwe's agric sector hard
Since the final stage of the Cold War, the use of sanctions as a "soft approach" in international diplomacy gained pre-eminence among states that seek to influence the perception and behaviour of othe...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 06:19hrs | 3 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Drones to control Tsetse flies, quelea birds in Zimbabwe
Drones are now part of efforts to control infestation of tsetse flies and quelea birds, as the Government moves on to step up ways to digitalise the economy.Authorities are making efforts to m...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mine wrangle sucks in deputy minister
Mines deputy minister Kambamura has been sucked in a mining wrangle pitting his ally Hillary Mutandwa against Phillip Makunze, a leaked police memo from Sanyati Police Station to Kadoma district polic...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 07:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimra seizes trucks, fuel over duty
A fuel dealer in Chiredzi was recently busted by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA), which impounded two trucks laden with over 46 000 litres of petrol believed to have been smuggled through Beitb...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 21:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zambia-bound truck spills 35 tonnes of sulphur
A Zambia-bound truck laden with 35 tonnes of sulphur overturned and caught fire at the 311km peg along the Harare-Chirundu Highway, near Tsetse checkpoint in Hurungwe District with preliminary investi...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
6 armed robbery suspects who undressed bus crew arrested
POLICE in Mashonaland West have arrested six men in connection with an armed robbery involving a CAG bus crew and passengers, who last week lost US$20 000, among other valuables.All the victim...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 19:12hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Rare Uhuru Cup promises fireworks
EVERY time Dynamos and Highlanders clash, the match is always an explosive affair, and it seems the President's Uhuru Cup this afternoon would not be any different despite the coronavirus having a hug...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fake Covid-19 certificates scam under investigation
AN investigation is underway after some people tried to use fake 48-hour Covid-19 certificates allegedly issued by a Bulawayo laboratory to cross into South Africa through Beitbridge Border Post. ...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Duo nabbed over fake Covid-19 certificates
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) yesterday arrested two men over origination of fake Covid-19 test certificates for travellers at Chirundu Border Post following a tip-off from members of the public....Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 20:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
300 fake Covid-19 certificates seized
POLICE have arrested two people and confiscated more than 300 blank stamped Covid-19 certificates, as the net closes in on people who are making fake certificates and selling them to travellers intend...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
'They called me a dissident,' says Thambolenyoka
Tennyson Ndlovu is quite an enigma. Having joined the liberation struggle at 21, he quickly became a highly-respected instructor for the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA), only to be demobil...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:45hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Woman scalds hubby's manhood
A 23-YEaR-OLD Goromonzi man is battling for life at Marondera Provincial Hospital after his wife allegedly poured hot cooking oil on his manhood following a domestic dispute.Moreblessing Mutes...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lest we forget: Women of the struggle
Tomorrow, Zimbabwe celebrates National Heroes Day, an important day on the national calendar to honour the gallant sons and daughters of the soil who made extraordinary sacrifices to liberate the coun...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Duo in court for stealing US$40,000
TWO Bulawayo men this week appeared before a Gweru magistrate on allegations of stealing US$40 455 which was under a Harare bound City Link luxury bus driver's seat.Joseph Tichafa Mahoto (38) ...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo men steal US$40 000 from City Link
TWO men from Bulawayo have been arrested for allegedly stealing more than US$40 000 which was under a Harare-bound City Link luxury bus driver's seat after the bus had stopped at a pick up and drop of...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Protesters faint after sentencing
There was drama at the Gweru courts when two of five suspected MDC hooligans fainted after being jailed for three years for public violence. The two failed to come to terms with their sentence...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 17:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kombi drivers refuse to leave bus terminus
COMMUTER omnibus drivers are refusing to pave way for ZUPCO buses at terminuses.ZUPCO and other buses were blocked by kombis from using Harare Central Charge Office Bus Terminus in protest aga...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 16:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2 MDC MPs denied bail over inciting protests
TWO MDC Alliance legislators, Amos Chibaya of (Mkoba) and Livingstone Chimina (Chiundura) as well as 15 suspected MDC activists, who appeared in court yesterday on allegations of inciting violence and...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 12:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Moyo is Mnangagwa's new acid test
Back in the days, every old, frail and ugly country woman was believed to be a witch. It didn't matter if, indeed, she was. Her looks and age naturally turned her into that ogre that drank our blood a...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 10:02hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Matabeleland has been captured
Mzukulu Chamisa, listen to this noble advise: pick up your toys, call all your friends and go back to Harare before tribal fires that you are stocking in Bulawayo consume you. Bulawayo is not a play g...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 15:13hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Zanu-PF run council engulfed by graft storm
Tucked away in Shurugwi in the Midlands province, Tongogara rural district council [RDC] has dispelled the myth that corruption is an urban preserve.Most corruption cases that grab the headlin...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF criticised for politicising beerhall reopening
THE Zanu PF-controlled Chiredzi Town Council has come under fire from MDC-T and Chiredzi United Residents' Association for politicising the reopening of a popular beerhall, Chigarapasi, and prematurel...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Obituary : Rest in peace our eminent revolutionaries
Zimbabwe lost two prominent women in September alone, their deaths occurring hard on the heels of that of Mrs Maud Muzenda, another eminent Zimbabwean revolutionary mother.Mrs Angeline Kamba's...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 01:56hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Why President Mugabe is the darling of Zimbabweans and the hero of Africa
President Robert Mugabe has been on the receiving end of all manner of criticism from the West and its local minions, the opposition. He has been cast in the most negative of terms because of his prin...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 19:33hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Tsvangirai's MDC tent burning
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai's latest presidential bid could run into serious trouble as he battles to steady the ship rocked by internal party strife.This comes as the MDC leader is at logger...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 14:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poem; Tambo yemagetsi
Iniwo zvangu tsvarakadenga yomusikana Chigagairwa zvacho mhodzi yechingwa Ndinotsenga mvura ndichiipfira masvisvinwa paAzania apo Ko ishe runako pandiri vakaita rwekundiramwira V...Published: 20 Aug 2017 at 17:26hrs | 4 | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo,Snr
'Better to die in battlefield'
COMRADE Gilbert Musekiwa Simon Majiri, whose Chimurenga name was Chabudaishudhu Kufahakuurayi is an unassuming war veteran. Born in 1938, Chabudaishudhu who now stays in Mvurwi, grew up in Shamva,...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
POEM; Kisimusi paZimbabwe
Gegegegege kuseka nhamo serugare Pfachaa yasvika kisimusi Tichaziveiko paZimbabwe kunze kwayo nzara Hutongi hwavo Gushungo chirambamaguta chaicho Igangaidza mukwenyi mhezi yavavira mum...Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 22:11hrs | 1 | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo. Snr
Cops run for life
POLICE in Tsholotsho had to call for reinforcements from the Bulawayo Dog Section to subdue and arrest a man from Sipepa who ran amok and disarmed two officers before spearing one of them in the butto...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Petrol attendant's indecent pictures leaked
Women's indecent pictures have been the in-thing in Chiredzi last week and many people wondered what was exactly happening.Chiredzi petrol attendant Daphine Chinyere shocked the sugarcane ...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
History of Labor in Zimbabwe before and after independence - Part one
If the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia; Ian Douglas Smith was alive today he would concur that the white regime lost the war because of the failure of the government to implement labor laws an...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 12:50hrs | 6 | by Nomazulu Thata
Ndebele perceptions of a king and the State
LET us today bring to the conclusion the story of the fate of King Lobengula as told by the whites. The sources tell of how the Major Allan Wilson Patrol comprising 12 men crossed the Shangani River i...Published: 17 May 2015 at 11:21hrs | | by Pathisa Nyathi
Rendering Mujuru superfluous
I AM reading a book under the Oppenheimer series, a book on Thomas Leask's diary entries covering his travels in Botswana and Zimbabwe, travels undertaken between 1865 and 1870.Like Livingston...Published: 07 Mar 2015 at 15:02hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Bulawayo's top private schools performs dismally, in bottom 10
THREE of Bulawayo's top private schools failed to justify the high fees they demand after they performed dismally in the November 2014 Grade 7 examinations.Carmel Primary School, Petra and W...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 03:52hrs | 21 | by Auxilia Katongomara
Zanu PF has stripped Mutasa of all that matters, he must make his now or never check-mate move!
Zanu PF Manicaland province has written to the politburo, the highest decision-making body in the party other than congress (well it would be better to say the highest rubber-stamping body because th...Published: 22 Jan 2015 at 12:13hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Laying today's foundation for the generations to come
The foundation cannot be built using rubbles and used bricks, as this will weaken the whole structure. Laying today's foundation for the generations to come. ...Published: 28 Oct 2014 at 10:12hrs | 4 | by Bishop Happison Chikova
Woman bashed for 'poor cooking'
A 24-YEAR-OLD woman from Chitungwiza was severely assaulted and threatened with an axe by her husband Given Mutsetse (35), because he did not like the food she had prepared for him.He was fin...Published: 20 Sep 2014 at 12:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe union' under fire
A VICTORIA FALLS housing cooperative using President Robert Mugabe's name has come under fire from human rights activists for seeking to evict villagers in Kachechete on the outskirts of the resort to...Published: 03 Sep 2014 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive land scandal uncovered
A massive land scandal in which President Robert Mugabe's name was deceitfully used and thousands of villagers left on the verge of eviction has been unearthed in rural Matabeleland North.The...Published: 03 Aug 2014 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The future of opposition politics in Zimbabwe with Dr Tsvangirai
My good friend from Zambia once recounted to me a stormy encounter between President Sata and a dismissed senior Patriotic Front party official who proceeded to join the opposition Movement for Multip...Published: 19 Jul 2014 at 10:17hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
'Prophet' skips rape trial, warrant of arrest issued
CHITUNGWIZA magistrate Estere Chivasa has issued a warrant of arrest for self-styled "prophet" Admire Dovi, who allegedly skipped trial last Thursday in a matter where he is accused of raping a 15-ye...Published: 19 May 2014 at 16:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA based Chimurenga musician release album
South African based Chimurenga signer Berven Mashonganyika aka Sekuru Berv has released an right track album titled Chimurenga Revolution.Born in Kadoma 25 years ago, Sekuru Berv grew up ...Published: 23 Apr 2014 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Brig-Gen Tanyanyiwa laid to rest, as it happened
1352: With the singing of the National Anthem, the proceedings at the National Heroes Acre have come to an end.1343: The laying of wreaths has been completed and the police band continues to e...Published: 08 Dec 2013 at 14:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Goche wants repeat traffic offenders banished
Transport, Communications and Infrastructure Development Minister Nicholas Goche wants repeat road traffic accident offenders to be banished as part of enforcements to bring sanity on the roads....Published: 19 Apr 2013 at 00:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Liquor licences issuance set to be decentralised from Harare
The acquisition of liquor licences will be decentralised starting next month, with operators of beer outlets able to make applications online.Operators have in the past complained that the iss...Published: 27 Feb 2013 at 04:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for killing friend over a ' beer scud'
A MAN has been jailed for the 2007 murder of a drinking partner for ending their booze session.Pilani Mutsetse, 29, of Shurugwi, was incensed after Wonder Dube left their watering hole called...Published: 22 May 2012 at 04:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man faces jail for commenting about Mugabe's sexual prowess
Maxwell Mutsetse (30) from Mutare faces jail after he was overheard commenting about the sexual prowess of the country's president Robert Mugabe, it was reported yesterday.Mutsetse allegedly t...Published: 19 May 2012 at 10:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
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